Habit is stronger than proverb

 Habit is stronger than reason
  George Santayana

 That was something that just came from a bad habit. It was no mechanical reason that made me do it. Just a bad habit. It made me inconsistent. The ball would be high or low.

 Nothing is stronger than habit.
  Publius Ovidius Naso

 To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion

 I don't think that's a bad habit; I think sucking your thumb is an OK habit, ... Somebody's bad habit could be smoking, that's kind of a bad habit because it's harmful to you. But thumb-sucking really can't hurt you, except for your dental plan.

 It's like when you smoke cigarettes, you've got to take that nicotine patch and break that habit. We've got a habit of losing right now. We need to get, like, a nicotine winning patch. We've got to break that habit of losing, because it can become a habit. . . . We're working hard to break that habit.

 Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

 All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

 All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.

 I think as the game wore on, Davis started seeing that they were in it and they got stronger and stronger. His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. And the pressure on our team got stronger and stronger and we weren't able to deal with it.

 Once they file for an extension one year, it sort of becomes a habit. I know people who do it regularly who don't have any particular reason they couldn't have had their information together by April 15.

 We like to think that we are stronger than our compulsions. But when time after time we can't break a habit we so badly want to eliminate, we begin to realize that maybe our will power and self control aren't as strong as we thought they were. Maybe we are just as weak as everybody else.

 Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
  Blaise Pascal

 Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

 Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.


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